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It's our choices, more than anything, that show who we really are.

J. K. Rowling

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J. K. Rowling
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 31
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Joanne Jo Murray
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed? she jeered. Jokes? No,no, these are manners, replied Dumbledore.
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They run off eckeltricity, do they? he said knowledgeably. Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs, he added to Uncle Vernon. And batteries. Got a large collection of batteries.
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Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!
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Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!
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I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion.
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I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.
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Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf!
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Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you're my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get to me through you.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.
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Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.
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Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas you look at the finished book and you think, 'Oh, damn it, I should have changed that.' You're never happy. Whereas with a baby, you're happy. If you've got a perfect baby, you're just grateful.
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I love you, Hermione,” said Ron, sinking back, rubbing his eyes wearily. Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, “Don’t let Lavender hear you saying that.” “I won’t,” said Ron into his hands. “Or maybe I will . . . then she’ll ditch me . . .
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When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.
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I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater- She's foul enough to be one... Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.
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Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: Not nice, he said calmly. Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.
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It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .
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You saved Dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you.
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There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.
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Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough impossible to intimidate always coming out fighting.
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Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.
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